Health Oct 10 Giving coal country a healthy makeover One of the least healthy places in the United States is taking an unexpected shift toward better health. In West Virginia's coal country, a growing health gap is fueled in part by shrinking industry and prosperity. Hari Sreenivasan reports on…
World Oct 10 Looking back at the peace-promoting work of Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi – Part 1
Episode Oct 09 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 9, 2014 Tonight on the program, we examine the latest steps in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa as U.S. troops arrived in Liberia. Also: U.S. aiming to decrease child migration through sponsored Central American programs, a conversation with former CIA…
Health Oct 09 We all die, so why don’t we die well? Modern medicine has a fundamental failure in its approach toward aging and dying, says Dr. Atul Gawande: “We don't recognize that people have priorities besides just living longer.” Gawande, a surgeon and the author of a new book, "Being Mortal:…
Science Oct 09 Restored wetlands welcome wildlife and protect against future floods in San Francisco Bay Area
Nation Oct 09 Panetta: Time of unprecedented threat calls for debate on leadership Leon Panetta was involved in the war on terror, the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the wind-down of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the former CIA director and defense secretary is out with a memoir that has…